I'm not a wife or a mother, but I still matter!

I've recently blogged about singleness, and today I read this great post from Rachel Held Evans in which she has a good (polite) rant about the various expections placed on women.  She says:

It’s a fact of life: Women tend to be written off as incomplete until they achieve motherhood, which means we get pestered at every point along the way:
When will you start dating?
When will you get married? 
When will you have children?

It's helpful and disappointing to realise that at every stage of life there's another 'level' of womanhood to reach, most of which are not within our control!  And I guess if I ever reach the stage where people are no longer asking me when I'm going to get a boyfriend/get married/have children, that means I'm considered well and truly 'on the shelf'.

Rachel is writing as an American, and I wonder if there is more pressure in the American church to be the perfect Christian wife and mother than there is here in the UK.  What do you think? 

Take a look at Rachel's post here, and I'd recommend you follow her blog - she's good!